Jada Pinkett-Smith

Jada Koren Pinkett was born on Sept. 18, 1971, in Baltimore, MD. Her mother, Adrienne, was a high school student when she had her daughter, and when her teenaged marriage only lasted a few months, Adrienne and her mother shared child-rearing duties, with grandma stepping up the effort when Adrienne went through a period of heroin addiction. Pinkett Smith managed to rise above the expectations of the rough neighborhoods where she grew up, including being accepted into the Baltimore School for the Arts where she studied dance and choreography and formed a close friendship with fellow student Tupac Shakur. After graduating from high school she spent a year at the North Carolina School for the A... Continue Bio >>